yeah he rules

Ah yup, that is definitely the type of person who’s deeply attracted to cults.

Unfortunately there are a few things that make courts pretty tricky to implement in practice for things like the rationality, AI safety and EA communities. Badly implemented courts also can just make things worse by creating a clear target for attack and pressure. Seems very tricky, but probably we should have more courts (or maybe not, I would need to write the post to figure it out).

yesss yesss lesswrong people’s tribunals and struggle sessions let’s gooooooooo

jesus fucking christ this is insufferable, these guys have been masking off for so long now that they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel to find new things to do fascist signalling about

I’ve done crowdsourced work qualifying bits of random work e-mails (had to determine “is this a query” if I recall correctly), and yeah this was like more than a dozen years ago.

The ends justify the means but the means are genocide and slavery and the ends are a society with none of those pesky labour rights built on a bedrock of white supremacy. Where’s the dilemma?

I was referring of course to this vision of hell on their webpage!

I wonder if they’ve ever experienced any emotion other than smugness.

congratulations aella on being the only creature on this planet who’s not a strange smirking man i guess!

Suppose you’re a college grad who has to decide between the usual unpaid internships at dumb startups vs. getting to be a ‘research fellow’ for a group that says it’s going to solve philosophy and save the world, and the only catch is that the group is actually a cult. Still seems pretty tempting honestly.

Oh?

NeoReaction: It’s Always Antisemitism

God this is so funny. He’s so evasive about why exactly it is bad to be associated with Epstein. I just asked mummy and she said no.

“I don’t think doing that would have made me complicit. But, you know, it would have been very embarrassing for me.”

Aw don’t worry I have no morals. But people would have been mean to me again!

what the hecky

he’s so offended he’s been told he’s not god!

Jesus fucking christ I don’t think I will ever get over how fucking dogshit the fucking rationalists are at epistemology

IT’S CALLED A FUCKING MAPPING. “MAP”. AS IN NOT THE TERRITORY. IT’S IN THE NAME.

Oh you should be extremely worried.

God I was just reading that and it’s so hard but it’s so funny because that poor girl freya seems to have caused a crisis for Kent by being genuinely enthusiastic about AI bullshit and making friends with chatbots.

I wonder if Kent is going to have to do conversion therapy on his AI girlfriend now. Ethically of course.

Good news! We’ve solved consciousness.

https://poc.bcachefs.org/paper.pdf

Liteplo says the seed of RentAHuman was planted during his travels in Japan, where humans can lease other humans as escorts.

“The story that I could tell anyone to blow their mind is that you can rent a boyfriend or a girlfriend,” he said.

huh? his big epiphany is learning about prostitution?

Clearly one of the lesser intellectual crimes in this nazi manifesto, but the way rationalists use “ontology” to mean basically “core set of beliefs” irks me so much!! Though on the upside it leads to awe-inspiring metaphysical horror turns of phrase such as “update one’s ontology”.

Someone claimed no country had ever pulled itself out of poverty except by capitalism

The funny thing is orthodox marxists wouldn’t necessarily disagree: capitalism is a necessary historical step towards communism. Not sure how that justifies the continued existence of exploitation and billionaires!